I don’t even have words on how to start this post. It has been so long since I came to this space to write and I have sat at my laptop for several minutes without really knowing how to start, what to say, or where to begin.

My last post was from the midst of the pandemic and was truly written in a time of massive change and chaos. I had just had a baby (our first son), was teaching online from home, missing my loved ones terribly, and genuinely had so many questions floating through my head.

Here I am almost four years later, an additional son has been born, we have moved homes, jobs, lost several loved ones, gained even more little ones, and my life looks different and yet the same.

You may be wondering, why are you back in this space and rightly so. Why return to a blog I put away long ago? To be honest, its to invite you along for a new adventure, an endeavor you may call it. In the last four years I have learned to grow many things…vegetables, shrubs, trees, and loads of flowers. My love for growing things well exceeded my own expectations in the last few years and now I am beginning to spread the love of flowers to all of you.

Kyle and I have decided to create the Rustic Urban Family Farm (R.U.F.F.) and begin selling RUFF Cut Flowers in the 2024 season. We invite you to join us in this adventure of growing and selling our flowers to people in our community.

Never would I have imagined 4 years ago that I would be on this flower-filled adventure, but YOU NEVER KNOW where life will take you.